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Pine Bluff board adopts 2025 budget, approves property sales and services contracts
Summary
The Pine Bluff School District Board of Education on Aug. 27 adopted the proposed fiscal 2025-26 budget with a tax levy and approved a range of administrative items including the sale of three district properties, a $180,000 MOU for three virtual special-education teachers and a set of instructional and technology purchases.
The Pine Bluff School District Board of Education on Aug. 27 approved the district’s proposed fiscal 2025-26 budget and tax levy and voted to approve a series of administrative contracts and property sales, actions district leaders said are needed to support ongoing construction, special education services and classroom instruction.
The actions matter because they set the district’s funding plan that will appear on a sample ballot ahead of the election, free up funds and property for future capital use, and fund short-term staffing and technology purchases the district says it needs for the school year.
At the start of the meeting the board approved the minutes of the July 22, 2024 meeting. The board then voted to adopt the proposed budget of expenditures for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, and to approve the related sample ballot; the motion was read into the record and carried by voice vote.
The board approved a package of policy…
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